HBCU News - Covering HBCUs and the African American …
3 days ago · HBCU News covers Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Politics, Campus News, HBCU Research, Sports and stories related to the African American Community.
Mass shooting prompts HBCU to change open campus policy
2 days ago · November 12, 2024. Tuskegee University has announced a big shift on its campus after the historic HBCU experienced a mass shooting on its campus. One person died and 16 others were injured in a mass shooting during the school’s homecoming celebration — its 100th — over the weekend. The Alabama-based HBCU sent out a statement informing the ...
A party, a fight, then gunfire: Witnesses to Tuskegee ... - NBC News
2 days ago · Nov. 12, 2024, 1:29 PM PST. By Marquise Francis. As successive gunshots rang out early Sunday morning in a parking lot at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Kierra Talley thought she was going to die ...
HBCU news - Today’s latest updates - CBS News
HBCUs fight to make up funding deficits. For decades, Black land-grant colleges and universities have received less funding than predominantly White schools, leaving faculty and students to fill ...
HBCU News - Leadership changes swell at Black colleges
Oct 17, 2024 · Morehouse, North Carolina A&T, Howard and Hampton have all announced changes in leadership in the past two years. Walter Kimbrough, who was named interim president of Talladega College in June, previously was president of Dillard University (2012-22) and Philander-Smith College (2004-12).
Biden administration urges 16 states to address funding ... - CNN
Sep 19, 2023 · The Biden administration demanded governors in 16 states address a more than $12 billion funding disparity between land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their...
Biden administration gave $16 billion to HBCUs. How has it been …
May 21, 2024 · The Biden administration recently announced that it has invested a record $16 billion in historically Black colleges and universities over the past three years.
HBCUs have been underfunded by $12 billion, federal officials reveal
Oct 9, 2023 · Sixteen states have been underfunding some of their historically Black colleges for decades. The shortfall is more than $12 billion, according to an analysis from the U.S. Department of Education.
Why Students Are Choosing H.B.C.U.s: ‘4 Years Being Seen as …
Jun 11, 2022 · Once the primary means for Black Americans to get a college education, historically Black colleges and universities, or H.B.C.U.s, now account for just 9 percent of such students.
Historically Black Colleges Finally Get the Spotlight
Jul 18, 2021 · John S. Wilson Jr., who has served as the president of Morehouse College and as a White House adviser on historically Black colleges, said that the institutions, known collectively as...